How Man Came To Be, and When and Where. "Evolution with a Jump"
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Daniel G Brinton Forum Friedrich K C L Büchner Fortnightly Review |
Subjects: | Anthropology, Human Species, Palaeontology, Geology, Evolution, Heredity, Genius |
Publications cited: | Hovelacque 1881 |
Questions whether the production of occasional men of genius such as Johann W von Goethe can be explained by the laws of heredity alone, or whether it requires 'what is called "evolution per saltum", or with a jump [...] that process, whatever it may be, which produces "sports" in plants'. | |
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